Entertainment

Our audience are sometimes not sincere with us – Adjetey Anang

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 7 0

Ghanaian actor, Adjetey Anang, popularly known as “Pusher”, has revealed that insincere feedback and the inability of the audience to understand the key message in a movie, are his greatest fears in the movie industry. He was sharing the story of his journey into acting with Rev. Albert Ocran as part of the Engine Room […]Continue Reading

Entertainment

Let Moesha Boduong heal peacefully – Family to Ghanaians

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 7 0

The family of Moesha, now Maurecia Boduong has tasked Ghanaians to give the actress the privacy and space to “heal” peacefully after she went viral for renouncing her old ways and accepting Christ. In a press release, the family stated that everyone reserves the right to a new beginning and pleaded with, especially social media […]Continue Reading

Entertainment

Funny Face’s ex-wife remarries

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 8 0

The ex-wife of comedian Funny Face, Elizabeth Ntim, had remarried. The police officer got married in a traditional ceremony held at Weija, in the Greater Accra Region, on July 28. The couple were seen in viral videos dressed in Kente with matching jewellery. Dressed in regal outfits, the couple exchanged vows and rings. They later […]Continue Reading

Sport

Tokyo 2020: Boxer Shakul Samed apologises to Ghanaians for early exit

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 7 0

Ghanaian Boxer, Shakul Samed, has apologised to Ghanaians for his early exit in the Round of 16 of the Light heavyweight category of the Men’s Olympics boxing. Samed lost to experienced Turkish boxer Bayram Malkan via a second round technical knockout, becoming the first Ghanaian boxer to depart the Tokyo 2020 games. The round of […]Continue Reading

Sport

Tokyo 2020: Abeiku Jackson misses out on 100m butterfly semis

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 10 0

Ghana’s Abeiku Jackson failed to make the semi-finals of the men’s 100m butterfly swimming event on Thursday despite winning his heat. Jackson was in Heat 2 and he finished first in a time of 53.39 seconds. which is a new national record. He finished ahead of India’s Prakash Sajan who recorded a time of 53.45 […]Continue Reading

Sport

Africa Cup of Nations Draw set for August 17

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 12 0

The Confederation of African Football (Caf) has announced that the draw for the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations will take place on August 17 in Cameroon. The event which was initially postponed in June due to logistical relations related to the coronavirus, has been scheduled for the Yaounde Conference Centre at 18h00 GMT with the […]Continue Reading

Sport

Barcelona president reveals why they are desperate to sell striker Griezmann

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 15 0

Barcelona President, Joan Laporta has revealed why the club is so desperate to get rid of Antoine Griezmann even though he has been with the club for just two years. While the Frenchman may not have set the world alight in his time at the Catalan club following his big-money move from Atletico Madrid, he […]Continue Reading

General

Ofori-Atta: Ghana’s public debt GHS334bn – 77.1% of GDP

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 16 0

Ghana’s provisional nominal debt stock as of end-June 2021 stood at GHȼ334,560.4 million (US$58,041.1 million), representing 77.1 per cent of GDP, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has told parliament his mid-year budget review on Thursday, 29 July 2021. This was up from GHȼ291.6 billion (US$50.8 billion) at the end of December 2020. This stock included the […]Continue Reading

General

Ghanaians to pay for Nat’l Cathedral via GHS100-a-Month Club – Ofori-Atta

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 15 0

Work on the National Cathedral is progressing speedily, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has told parliament in the mid-year budget review on Thursday, 29 July 2021, noting that ordinary Ghanaians who wish to contribute to the construction of the edifice, would soon be given the opportunity to do so through a yet-to-be-launched 100-Cedis-a-Month Club. He said […]Continue Reading

Politics

Assin North: We’ll resist attempt to subvert, steal true will of the people – Ousted MP

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 19 0

James Gyakye Quayson has said his victory in the 2020 parliamentary election in Assin North was a pure and legitimate one and therefore, he and his party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) shall resist every attempt to subvert the true will of the people of Assin North Mr Quayson’s comment comes after the High Court […]Continue Reading

General Politics

I disguise myself with nose masks to escape attacks of disgruntled Akufo-Addo supporters

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 20 0

A former political science lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr Richard Amoako Baah, has revealed that he is forced to wear a nose mask and hat just so he could hide from members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) who constantly accost and attack him for the lower-than-expected […]Continue Reading

General

‘$5m CJ bribe’ lawyer faces 9 GLC charges

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 20 0

The Disciplinary Committee of the General Legal Council has imposed nine charges on Mr Kwasi Afrifa, a lawyer who claimed his former client, Ogyeedom Obranu Kwesi Atta VI, told him the Chief Justice had demanded a bribe of $5 million in exchange for a favourable outcome in a case pending at the courts. Mr Afrifa […]Continue Reading

Sport

We’ll go to CAS if … – Tema Youth PRO

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 14 0

Spokesperson of Tema Youth Football Club, Collins Odoom has said they will go to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) if they do not get justice from the Appeals Committee. Collins Odoom speaking on Kasapa FM’s Dwidwamu Sports Night with Adam Adjei expressed the club’s displeasure about the ruling by the Disciplinary Committee of […]Continue Reading

Entertainment

3Music TV Goes Live On Sunday August 1

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 13 0

3Media Networks, home of the 3Music Awards is going live with a new 24-hour music and lifestyle channel at 3pm on Sunday, August 1. Specially curated to target millennial and Gen Z audiences, the digital free to air channel brings them closer to the music they love, with unfettered access to artistes in a way […]Continue Reading

Business

Economic recovery has started – Ofori-Atta

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 19 0

Government has provided evidence to back its claim that the Ghanaian economy has started recovering from the shocks it suffered as a result of the Covid-19 global pandemic. Growth averaged 7% in the 1st three years of the Akufo-Addo administration until Covid hit and slowed it down to about 1% in 2020. Prior to this […]Continue Reading

Business

2021 Mid-year review: One million jobs for youth coming – Ofori Atta

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 17 0

Government has outlined plans to create about 1 million jobs as part of a three-year strategy to address youth unemployment in the country. Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta made this known during his presentation of the mid-year fiscal policy review to Parliament on Thursday, July 29, 2021. According to him, though government through its flagship programmes […]Continue Reading

Business

Capital Bank Case: Your chances at Court of Appeal very bleak – Judge tells Ato Essien

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 18 0

The former Chief Executive Officer of Capital Bank William Ato Essien’s chances of his application challenging the dismissal of submission of no case to answer is “very bleak,” according to the Commercial Division of the Accra High Court. The court presided over by Justice Eric Kyei Baffour, a Justice of the Court of Appeal sitting […]Continue Reading

Politics

Mid-year budget review presentation ‘hopeless’ – Minority

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 20 0

The minority in parliament has described as hopeless the mid-year budget review presentation by finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta. The minister in departing from the convention over the past 4 years of demanding more money through supplementary budget estimates, announced plans of the government to create one million jobs, build 111 hospitals, while maintaining all social Continue Reading

General

Western Togoland Leader Papavi Hogbedetor granted 16k bail

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 19 0

A Ho Circuit Court has today granted bail to 88-years old Kwami Kudzodzi, also known as Papavi Hogbedetor, the leader of the pro-separatist Homeland Study Group. The frail-looking octogenarian was arraigned before the court earlier today, following his arrest on Wednesday, 28 July at his private residence in Ho. Papavi has been on the police […]Continue Reading

General Politics

Mills had problems keeping Anyidoho in his office – Asiedu Nketiah

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 24 0

The General Secretary of the main opposition NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has discounted the supposed strong ties between late President Prof. JEA Mills and embattled former Deputy General Secretary, Koku Ayindoho. “Prof. Atta Mills had his own problems with the retention of Koku Anyidoho even in his office” he told Bonohene Baffuor Awuah on Ghana […]Continue Reading

Business

Cedi has been relatively stable – Ofori-Atta

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 22 0

The cedi has been relatively stable against major trading currencies this year, according to Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta. Analysts had predicted that the cedi was expected to slightly depreciate due to the huge demand for forex and the size of external debt service. According to them, the cedi was bound to face huge pressure in […]Continue Reading

Regional

One killed, another injured in gunmen attack

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 14 0

Some gunmen stormed a busy area near the O.A bus terminal in Sabongari, a suburb of Bawku, and shot indiscriminately injuring two people. Sources say, a parcel of land estimated to accommodate two “container stalls” has been in contention between two families in Sagabo and Sabongari. Multiple accounts point to an attempt to develop the […]Continue Reading

Regional

We are sorry for rejecting food items – Fishermen to Hawa Koomson

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 16 0

Fishermen in Elmina in the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abrem District in the Central Region have apologized for rejecting some food items provided by the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Mavis Hawa Koomson. In an interview with Kasapa News the Elmina Best Fisherman John Badu condemned the hostility from his colleague fishermen against the Minister […]Continue Reading

Entertainment

40-year-old slice of Prince Charles and Diana’s wedding cake to be auctioned

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 16 0

Forty years after Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer‘s fairytale wedding, a slice of the wedding cake is going up for auction. The large slice of cake icing and marzipan base from one of the 23 official wedding cakes features a sugared onlay of the Royal coat-of-arms coloured in gold, red, blue, and silver. It […]Continue Reading

Regional

Kokomlemle residents call for underground power transmission cables

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 16 0

Residents of Sadisco Junction at Kokomlemle in Accra are calling for the installation of underground power transmission cables in their vicinity. This comes after three electricity poles were pulled down by a loaded truck on Thursday as a result of its height. The incident according to residents frightened some commuters who took to their heels. […]Continue Reading

General

Committee to probe immigration officers cited in exposé demanding money for entry at borders

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 22 0

Officials of the Ghana Immigration Service caught on camera in an exposé demanding monies to allow illegal entry into the country have made appearances before a committee set up to probe the matter. A JoyNews investigation uncovered how these officials illegally collect monies from travellers to allow entry into the country through unapproved routes near […]Continue Reading

Business

Mid-year budget review: Public Sector workers take on Finance Minister over new minimum wage

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 21 0

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta says the recently negotiated minimum wage for workers was agreed based on a common understanding that government could not share what it does not have. The Aggrieved Public Sector Workers Union has been agitating following the announcement of the new minimum wage. The National Tripartite Committee increased the wage to ¢12.53 […]Continue Reading

Politics

I will win hands down even against Asiedu Nketia – Assin North NPP parliamentary candidate

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 20 0

New Patriotic Party (NPP) 2020 Parliamentary Candidate (PC) for Assin North Constituency, Abena Durowaa Mensah, is optimistic of winning hands down if she is contests the upcoming by-election. Her comment comes after the Cape Coast High Court declared the 2020 parliamentary election held in the Constituency null and void. The ruling was given on Wednesday, […]Continue Reading

Business

UN Food Systems Summit: Biotechnology key to meeting SDG on zero hunger

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 19 0

Agricultural biotechnology is a crucial tool for transforming global food systems to meet the United Nation’s goal of ensuring zero hunger by 2030, say some scientists, academics and civil society representatives. Evidence abounds that biotechnology has had a positive overall impact on agriculture in the areas where it has been employed, they say. If adopted […]Continue Reading

Regional

Amnesty Ghana urges gov’t to protect prisoners, citizens’ rights

By Admin Editor July 30, 2021 18 0

Amnesty International Ghana has called on government to implement all international human rights obligations in Ghana’s national legislation to protect its citizenry. It should also enforce the Chapter Five of the 1992 Constitution, which bothers on protecting citizen’s human rights, by taking all necessary steps to ensure that women, children, groups, all prisoners, and Continue Reading